About Me
- Third year graduate student
- My research interests:
- Web-based interactive data visualization
- Statistical computation
- Sports (especially baseball)
- Previously:
- AT&T intern (last summer)
- Data Analyst (before grad school)
Contact Me
- Please contact me via email: sievert@iastate.edu
- If I have not responded to you within 24 hours, please send me a friendly reminder.
- I will not answer questions about the homework on the day it is due!!!
- My actual office is Snecedor 3414, but office hours will be held in 1205.
Motivating statistics
- I'll be honest: stats can be hard/boring!
- As in many fields, you have to work hard and learn (sometimes boring) things before you can do the fun stuff!
- BUT, it's not irrelevant:
- Google uses statistics to optimize search results.
- Netflix uses statistics to makes suggestions based on your viewing history.
- Facebook uses statistics to study human behavior and the dynamics of social networks.
- The government uses statistics to track down terriorists!
- When computing power increases, so does our ability to understand the world with data modeling.
- Data-driven, well-informed business decisions will become very important – even for small businesses!
- If you can speak the language of statistics, you will have a big advantage!
- Computing power also sparks innovation – the internet of things is not far away!
Am I blowing your mind yet, man?
